Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by BOYLE Peter
The right-wing Donald Trump United States administration has demanded that Australia increase its military spending from 2% of gross domestic product (about $56 billion a year) to 3% ($84 billion) and the major parties have been, predictably, quick to obey.
Socialist Alliance calls instead for (…)
, by KAMPMARK Binoy
Mining magnates are the unelected captains of industry. While the official rhetoric might, seemingly, be at odds, especially when it comes to climate change, but if the country’s business is mining, governments will do whatever they can to accommodate mining CEOs’ wishes.
It is for that reason (…)
, by DHIR Nandini
Over half of migrant women who experienced sexual harassment at work feared losing their job if they reported the issue.
More than half of migrant women employed in Australia have experienced sexual harassment at work.
Research from Unions NSW, the peak body for the state’s labour unions, (…)
Vote cast with 158 other countries to recognise ‘permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’
A spokesperson for the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said the vote reflected international concern for Israel’s actions, including its ‘ongoing (…)
, by KAMPMARK Binoy
There is much to loathe about the AUKUS security agreement between Canberra, Washington and London.
The August 2024 AUSMIN talks in Annapolis, Maryland, held between United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and their Australian counterparts, (…)
, by HÀ René, HIOE Brian
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke with René Hà, one of the founders of the Stamped zine, a space for migrant creatives navigating Australia’s immigration system.
Brian Hioe:Could you first introduce yourself for those who don’t know you?
René Hà:My name is René Hà. I am a Vietnamese national (…)
, by FUENTES Federico, WAINWRIGHT Sam
Sam Wainwright is a Socialist Alliance national co-convenor and active in the Stop AUKUS WA coalition, which is campaigning in Western Australia against the Australia-Britain-United States military pact. In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist (…)
, by HINMAN Pip
Amid the escalating violence in Gaza, the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) has again called on state and federal governments to cut all military ties and to apply sanctions to Israel, as it did after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Sarah Schwartz, human rights lawyer and JCA Executive, said on (…)
, by KAMPMARK Binoy
The heralded arrival of the Internet, an information medium never before seen on such scale, caused enthusiasm.
Humankind would go on to fawn over a technology which would, as Langdon Winner writes, “bring universal wealth, enhanced freedom, revitalized politics, satisfying community, and (…)
, by JAYASURIYA Kanishka
The Gaza crisis has underscored the deep fractures of domestic politics in Western Europe, the US and Australia. It is as much a domestic political crisis as a conflict in the Middle East.
What is the nature of this crisis? Well, it is not one but multiple crises that are condensed around the (…)
, by Australian Council of Trade Unions
The ACTU welcomes the announcement that the Albanese Labor Government will pay superannuation on the Government payment from 1 July 2025. This change will rectify a historic inequity that costs women thousands of dollars in retirement savings contributing to the stark gendered retirement gap. (…)
, by CHANDLER-MATHER Max, FUENTES Federico, MUNCKTON Stuart
A new phase in the battle for real solutions to Australia’s housing crisis has opened up around Labor’s “help-to-buy” housing scheme, which it says will help first-home buyers.
Last year, the Greens waged a months-long campaign against Labor’s Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) bill. The (…)
, by DENHAM Jim
John Pilger, who died on 30 December 2023, was once a brave and principled journalist who spoke truth to power.
Many of us of a Certain Age can remember being moved and inspired in the 1970s by his exposures of war crimes, racism, injustice and human rights abuses. He was a war correspondent (…)
, by PANEGYRES Markela
More than two months since Israel began its genocidal war on the Palestinian people, Australian mainstream media continues its unwavering support for Israel.
Although its bias towards Israel is unsurprising, given its role in upholding the interests of the capitalist class, it is nevertheless (…)
, by DAVEY Melissa
Active community testing required on an intermittent basis to see ‘the whole iceberg, not just the tip’, Prof Catherine Bennett says
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, by DAVEY Melissa
Department of Health says improvements are due to vaccine coverage, hybrid immunity and ready access to treatment
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, by DYNES Emma
Deanna “Violet” Coco this month was sentenced to fifteen months’ jail, with a non-parole period of eight months, for the “crime” of blocking one lane of traffic on a Sydney bridge for 25 minutes as part of a climate change protest. She has since been released on bail pending an appeal, but a (…)
, by FUENTES Federico
Eight months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, the realities and aims of his brutal war of aggression are evident for all to see: Tens of thousands of civilian deaths, mass graves, widespread torture and rape, the forced transfer of children to Russia and (…)
, by KUHN Rick
Australian governments and their counterparts around the world have largely succeeded in desensitising us to avoidable mass deaths and disease. In the week to 6 July, 294 people died of COVID-19 in Australia, more than 40 a day.
In May, OzSAGE, an organisation of health-related experts, (…)
, by ROSS Liz
The chants rang out through cities and towns around the world as protesters defiantly challenged the US Supreme Court’s 1 July decision to end national access to abortion: “We won’t go back!” and “Our bodies! Our lives! Our right to decide!”
The decision has encouraged bigots everywhere, (…)
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